speed w/ OFFSET/LIMIT - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Damien
Subject speed w/ OFFSET/LIMIT
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Msg-id 200305271539.50039.dm_mailings@abelia-decors.com
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Responses Re: speed w/ OFFSET/LIMIT  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>)
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Hi !

I'm running a pretty simple select query on a pretty large table (70000
records). This table has some "flag" fields, each one textually explained by
another table ( flag VARCHAR(2), flag_details VARCHAR(60))

SELECT t.* , t1.flag1_details , ... , tn.flagn_details
FROM table t
NATURAL JOIN t1
NATURAL JOIN ...
NATURAL JOIN tn
ORDER BY main_field OFFSET x LIMIT 50

There is no where statement, this query is for display purposes on a web page.
My problem is, where OFFSET is low, execution takes only a few milli-seconds,
but where OFFSET is high (50 last results for example), execution can take 10
seconds...
Is there anything I can do to speed up such a query ?


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